Opinion
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Park Service buys more land, maintains less
Opinion -The National Park Service, facing a $5 billion repair and maintenance backlog at America's national parks, continues to spend more money buying new land than to repair and maintain what it already owns. -
Federal government allows pollution dumping into Potomac River
Opinion -WASHINGTON, DC—On October 11, 2000 the National Wilderness Institute (NWI) announced its intention to file a lawsuit charging that several federal agencies are violating the Endangered Species Act (ESA) through their improper operation of the -
Referendum update: State and local sprawl-related initiatives
Opinion -The November 7 election offered many lessons. Of special interest to Environment & Climate News readers, those lessons included: Voters want to protect open space, and they will pay for transit if they think it will reduce congestion (which it won't). -
Requiem for a heavyweight
Opinion -Editor’s note: People for the USA closed its doors on December 31. -
Boston Harbor cleanup: A world-class environmental feat
Opinion -Fourteen years ago, Bostonians scoffed when the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) promised to clean up Boston Harbor by the end of the millennium. -
HUD E-MAPS generate praise, criticism
Opinion -Saying “informed decisions are the best decisions,” Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo recently unveiled a new application on the agency’s Web site that will help people learn about environment matters that affect -
CARA battle is won . . . for now
Opinion -Property rights advocates cautiously declared victory in early October over the Conservation and Reinvestment Act (CARA), which would have established a 15-year, $45 billion trust to fund government efforts to acquire private land. -
Precautionary Foolishness
Opinion -In candid moments, partisans of the Kyoto global warming protocol will admit that the theory of catastrophic warming has not been validated by experimental or empirical evidence. -
Ozone hole: Much ado about nada
Opinion -For years, the ozone depletion-impact crowd was worrying about the effects surface ultraviolet radiation would have on the Antarctic ecosystem—though, as we’ve said before, the Antarctica ecosystem, except for a few penguins, consists entirely of -
Dr. Bruce N. Ames Addresses Sun Exposure
Opinion -Most skin cancers you just cut off, and it isn't much of a problem. But UV (ultraviolet) light from the sun—particularly burns during the first 10 or 15 years of your life—damages DNA and causes skin cancer. -
Who says timber companies don’t care?
Opinion -On September 7, 2000, the Bangor Daily News reported that Fraser Paper Inc., which owns and operates lands in Maine and New Brunswick, is developing a cooperative program with area educators. -
The Precautionary Principle: Agriculture and Biotechnology
Opinion -On September 27, 2000 the International Consumers for Civil Society (ICCS) held a briefing on Capitol Hill to discuss the precautionary principle, its historical roots, and its likely impact on developing nations and global markets if it becomes the -
On the fire line
Opinion -As of mid-September, some 78,406 fires have burned 6.9 million acres of U.S. forests, making Summer 2000 among the nation's worst fire seasons in a half century. -
CRS backpedals on link between wildfires, logging
Opinion -Congressional researchers who in August found little or no relationship between this summer's massive wildfires and the decline in timber harvests now say the possibility of a link "cannot be determined from the available data. -
Fires scorch seven million acres
Opinion -This year's forest fire season in the West may be the worst since the 1930s. Nearly seven million acres have burned--more than twice what is normal for this time of year--and the peak of the fire season is just arriving. -
CFC treaty fuels black market
Opinion -New research in the journal Atmospheric Environment warns that a growing worldwide black market in chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) may threaten recovery of the Earth’s ozone layer. -
A decade of ignored warnings
Opinion -1993 A panel of leading American foresters meets in Sun Valley, Idaho. -
Can England reach the twenty-first century with Charles in charge?
Opinion -In a recent lecture broadcast to a worldwide audience of millions, Charles, the Prince of Wales, delivered a gloomy commentary on the direction being taken by modern science. -
A Report from Darby, Ohio
Opinion -Editors’ note: The small community of Darby, Ohio, is at the epicenter of the battle between private property rights advocates and government regulators. Dale E. -
Environment and the 2000 election
Opinion -Ultimately, the importance of environment issues to the 2000 election may not be determined by “environmentalists” or more moderate conservationists—or even Democrats or Republicans. -
Wildfires, warnings, women, and children
Opinion -“Mom, they’ve ordered us to evacuate. What do you want me to save from the house? -
Hawaii Sierra Club sues over tourism
Opinion -“Overcrowded beaches, strained natural resources, clogged roadways, and overburdened natural areas---these are the tangible effects of increasing visitor arrivals,” said Jeff Mikulina, director of the Hawaii chapter of the Sierra Club, which has filed -
Roadless area rule won’t achieve forest diversity
Opinion -The Forest Service’s draft roadless area regulation could harm the nation’s forests and fails to look at alternatives that might better address the diversity of the forests, according to a public interest comment submitted to the agency by -
A call to arms: an interview with John Carlisle
Opinion -John Carlisle is director of the Environmental Policy Task Force at the National Center for Public Policy Research, headquartered in Washington, DC.